The Road Back to Sweetgrass elders and Margie

and Margie

and the evocative "firewater

Almanac of the Dead is fiction on the grand scale

" — Sherman Alexie

timpsula or wild turnip

The Road Back to Sweetgrass elders and MargieSet in northern Minnesota, The Road Back to Sweetgrass follows Dale Ann, Theresa, and Margie, a trio of American Indian women, from the 1970s to the present, observing their coming of age and the intersection of their lives as they navigate love, economic hardship, loss, and changing family dynamics on the fictional Mozhay Point reservation. As young women, all three leave their homes. Margie and Theresa go to Duluth for college and work; there